Well . . .
In June 2009 I built a high-end PC with an OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD as my main drive. In or around September this year, the drive died. So, I restored my most recent backup on a spare 80GB HDD I had laying around, and sent the SSD in for an RMA. I eventually got the drive back, restored the image from the 80GB HDD I had just made on the SSD and everything was just normal again. BUT, even when I was using the 80GB HDD, I had left the partition at the original 60GB, so it worked fine.
In November, my new SSD died . . . again. So I did the same trick, restored my most recent backup on that slow HDD, and sent the SSD in for an RMA. But, there was a problem RMAing, and I had to wait around 3 weeks to get my SSD back. In the mean time, I used diskmgmt.msc to resize my partition from 60GB to 80GB (I was using around 54GB) to help it run a little faster.
Now, I got my SSD back, but before I can restore the backup from my HDD on the SSD, I first have to resize the partition back to 60GB. And that's where the problem is. Windows won't do it. I still have only used ~53GB. Diskmgmt.msc says I can't make it any smaller than 67GB, and even then it says access denied after doing nothing for 10 minutes after starting the operation.
So now, I'm stuck with this really slow HDD and a good SSD just sitting next to me.
How can I go about resizing my partition so that I can make an image and restore it on my SSD again?
Thanks,
Raybob
In June 2009 I built a high-end PC with an OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD as my main drive. In or around September this year, the drive died. So, I restored my most recent backup on a spare 80GB HDD I had laying around, and sent the SSD in for an RMA. I eventually got the drive back, restored the image from the 80GB HDD I had just made on the SSD and everything was just normal again. BUT, even when I was using the 80GB HDD, I had left the partition at the original 60GB, so it worked fine.
In November, my new SSD died . . . again. So I did the same trick, restored my most recent backup on that slow HDD, and sent the SSD in for an RMA. But, there was a problem RMAing, and I had to wait around 3 weeks to get my SSD back. In the mean time, I used diskmgmt.msc to resize my partition from 60GB to 80GB (I was using around 54GB) to help it run a little faster.
Now, I got my SSD back, but before I can restore the backup from my HDD on the SSD, I first have to resize the partition back to 60GB. And that's where the problem is. Windows won't do it. I still have only used ~53GB. Diskmgmt.msc says I can't make it any smaller than 67GB, and even then it says access denied after doing nothing for 10 minutes after starting the operation.
So now, I'm stuck with this really slow HDD and a good SSD just sitting next to me.
How can I go about resizing my partition so that I can make an image and restore it on my SSD again?
Thanks,
Raybob